Ezekiel 17:14-16

The Voice

¹⁴ so that the kingdom would remain weak and lowly, not able to rise up against him, and survive only by following the provisions of his covenant. ¹⁵ But Jerusalem’s newly appointed leader rebelled against Babylon’s king by sending his ambassadors to another king in Egypt to receive horses and recruit a large army. Do you think Jerusalem’s king and his ambassadors will succeed? Is it possible to get away with such things? Can this vassal king break a covenant and escape?

¹⁶ As surely as I, the Eternal Lord, live, I declare that Jerusalem’s King Zedekiah will die in Babylon, the land of the king who gave him Jerusalem’s throne and whom he despised when he broke that covenant.